Absolutely no problem at all doing that. The only thing that's confusing here is that `request.GET` is a misleading name. The query parameters are available on any request, regardless of the HTTP method.
> Is this reliable behavior across browsers? Yes. > Is it a dumb idea for reasons I haven't thought of? No. Cheers, Tom On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 03:26:52 UTC, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > > As far as I can tell (testing with the Conkeror web browser), it's > possible to read both GET and POST at once: if a user POSTs to a URL > containing GET parameters, you can get them both in the view. > > Is this reliable behavior across browsers? Is it a dumb idea for reasons > I haven't thought of? > > A bit of background, in case there's simply a better approach to this: > > I'm using GET parameters to create custom model formsets: depending on > those parameters, I construct different initial data, and set some of the > form fields to use hidden input -- this makes it much easier for users > to input bulk model instances without having to mess with endless > drop-down menus. > > But I need the same initial data when handling the POST request, which > means I either need to re-read the GET parameters in the POST method > (I'm not sure that's reliable), or I need to otherwise store the values > of those parameters (ie in the session), and read them again from there > during POST. > > URL arguments would be stable, but there are many different possible > parameters, half of which won't even be present for any given formset, > and I don't know how to handle that using URL segments. > > I'd be interested in hearing any thoughts on this! > > Thanks, > Eric > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e86ddccc-8068-4d73-bbff-cb6e2a3ec8b3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
